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Scalar and Tensor Charmonium Resonances in Coupled-Channel Scattering from Lattice QCD
David J Wilson1, Christopher E Thomas1, Jozef J Dudek2,3
1DAMTP, University of Cambridge, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
We determine J^{PC}=0^{++} and 2^{++} hadron-hadron scattering amplitudes in the charmonium energy region up to 4100 MeV using lattice QCD, a first-principles approach to QCD. Working at m_{π}≈391 MeV, more than 200 finite-volume energy levels are computed and these are used in extensions of the Lüscher formalism to determine infinite-volume coupled-channel scattering amplitudes. We find that this energy region contains a single χ_{c0} and a single χ_{c2} resonance. Both are found as pole singularities on the closest unphysical Riemann sheet, just below 4000 MeV with widths around 70 MeV. The largest couplings are to kinematically closed D^{*}D[over ¯]^{*} channels in S-wave, and couplings to several decay channels consisting of pairs of open-charm mesons are found to be large and significant in both cases. Above the ground state χ_{c0}, no other scalar bound states or near-DD[over ¯] threshold resonances are found, in contrast to several theoretical and experimental studies.
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